Multiple Pathways to the Student Brain

From an award-winning neuroscience researcher with twenty years
of teaching experience, Multiple Pathways to the Student
Brain uses educator-friendly language to explain how the brain
learns. Steering clear of "neuro-myths," Dr. Janet
Zadina discusses multiple brain pathways for learning and
provides practical advice for creating a brain-compatible
classroom.

While there are an abundance of books and workshops that aim to
integrate education and brain science, educators are seldom given
concrete, actionable advice that makes a difference in the
classroom. Multiple Pathways to the Student Brain bridges
that divide by providing examples of strategies for
day-to-day instruction aligned with the latest brain science
. The book explains not only the sensory/motor pathways that are
familiar to most educators (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic), it
also explores the lesser known pathways--reward/survival, language,
social, emotional, frontal lobe, and memory/attention--and how they
can be tapped to energize and enhance instruction.

Educators are forever searching for new and improved ways to
convey information and inspire curiosity, and research suggests
that exploiting different pathways may have a major effect on
learning. Multiple Pathways to the Student Brain allows
readers to see brain science through the eyes of a
teacher--and teaching through the eyes of a brain
scientist.

Auteur

JANET N. ZADINA, PHD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology, Tulane University School of Medicine. A former classroom teacher, Dr. Zadina won the Society of Neuroscience's 2011 Science Educator Award for her work training educators in brain processes.

Résumé
From an award-winning neuroscience researcher with twenty years of teaching experience, Multiple Pathways to the Student Brain uses educator-friendly language to explain how the brain learns. Steering clear of neuro-myths, Dr. Janet Zadina discusses multiple brain pathways for learning and provides practical advice for creating a brain-compatible classroom.

While there are an abundance of books and workshops that aim to integrate education and brain science, educators are seldom given concrete, actionable advice that makes a difference in the classroom. Multiple Pathways to the Student Brain bridges that divide by providing examples of strategies for day-to-day instruction aligned with the latest brain science . The book explains not only the sensory/motor pathways that are familiar to most educators (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic), it also explores the lesser known pathways--reward/survival, language, social, emotional, frontal lobe, and memory/attention--and how they can be tapped to energize and enhance instruction.

Educators are forever searching for new and improved ways to convey information and inspire curiosity, and research suggests that exploiting different pathways may have a major effect on learning. Multiple Pathways to the Student Brain allows readers to see brain science through the eyes of a teacherand teaching through the eyes of a brain scientist.

Contenu

Acknowledgments ix

Preface xi

Introduction 1

1 How the Brain Thinks and Learns 9

2 The Sensory Motor Pathway 35

3 The Emotion Pathway 63

4 The Reward Pathway 89

5 The Attention and Memory Pathways 109

6 The Language and Math Pathways 133

7 The Frontal Lobe Executive Function Pathway 165

8 The Social Pathway 187

9 The Big Picture 211

Bibliography 239

The Author 259

Index 261